Sarah Jessica Parker attends the Louis Vuitton Fall 2012 show in Paris in a Louis Vuitton dress, of course.

PLEASE JUST LET CARRIE BRADSHAW DIE.

Seriously, honey. You’re like the George Lucas of former ingenues. It’s time to stop fiddling with this look and LET. IT. GO. Please, sweetie. Do it now, while we all still have fond memories of Carrie and her cracktastic array of getups. Remember the newsboy cap and granny panties? Or the newspaper dress? Good times. Times long past, dear.

The good news is your hair and makeup look awesome. The bad news is there’s a tear in your lace and your pointy shoes don’t go with this look.

I was thinking the same thing…like she had achieved the bangs that I unsuccessfully attempted to achieve, with much hairspray, in 1989 middle school.

aimee_parrott

Exactly! I could never have this hair — I’m naturally curly — but my sister did a pretty good job of achieving this same height and volume with only, say, three hours with a curling iron and Aquanet.

GenXcellent

After a perm and a lot of Aqua Net, I was able to achieve that look. I kind of miss it…maybe this is a sign it’s coming back?

Denny Li

Oh, yes, backcombing. I lost count of the number of girls with what I called the “fan” sticking up above their foreheads in the late 80s. I went the direction of super-short, punk hair. Meanwhile, in more recent years, I can’t remember the last time I saw a young girl or woman rocking short hair outside of celebs who were shorn for a role.

I called it “The Claw,” and resorted to hateration when I could not achieve it. I think I ended up with that horrid underside-of-the-skull shave and some sort of burgundy/purple on top. Ah, disenfranchisement. How you fuel the coffers of Hot Topic.

Call me Bee

We referred to it as the “hair-rake” or the “mall-rake.” So silly.

Ally08

I called it “the Melissa”. Every girl named Melissa seemed to sport this look.

kimmeister

Agreed! It makes her face look a thousand miles long.

ballerinawithagun

Yes, she needs to cover up that forehead! Didn’t she notice when she stuck her fingernail through the lace???

MaryMitch

I wish she would just cut that hair, already.

MilaXX

Actually the hair looks relatively healthy and pretty and if that piece in the front was a side bang it might look cute. It’s just that she went all Cameron Diaz in There’s Something About Mary and it looks crazy.

Jennifer Coleman

I was thinking Graydon Carter, the Editor in Charge of Vanity Fair.

Spicytomato1

I was thinking like Ed Grimley, but long. Horrible is right.

Sophie Collier

Indeed. It makes her long face look even longer. Football head.

StillGary

Nope, my hair was too thick and wavy — I was forever trying to flatten it wet with a curling iron, while blow drying — had they invented flat irons in 1986, I may have been a doctor — having 16 more hours a week to study — oh sorry, SJ’s hair is what we were talking about — um, that hairstyle still exists in these parts — it’s called the Kentucky Claw.

AngelaGreen

Absolultely agree, it’s Barbie cracktastic to me. Plus, I think the makeup makes her look not as pretty as she actually is.

mommyca

OMG… I love her… but this is tragic…..

Geno Boggiatto

I distinctly remember Carrie talking in the show about being at the age where she couldn’t show as much skin. And that was YEARSSSSS ago. SJP, but listen to Carrie’s words!

Judy_J

No, no, no, no, no, no, NO!!!!!! Make it stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PhillyJen

Hahahahahahahaha!

Wait, did you say her hair looks awesome? You meant awesome if it was 1988, right?

schadenfreudelicious

yup, sweep that up a bit more on the other side and you’ve got some fine Flock of Seagulls hair right there!

I think the hair could look good on Samantha/Kim or even Charlotte/Kristin. They have faces that are more suited for this hair style. SJP’s face is too long and harsh for this style. She needs something that softens her.

CozyCat

What she really needs is to EAT SOMETHING!

Remember the old addage: at a certain age a woman has to choose between her face and her a**. SJP passed that age a long time ago…

Adriana_Paula

Well, she clearly chose her ass, as is her perogative.

cleep1000

Oh, dear god. Where to start? You are not an ingenue anymore, S.J. Those stringy arms are not attractive. No one expects or wants you to be this thin. The hair is nice, but the make-up looks muddy, to me. The bronzer is too orange/yellow and clashes with the pink lip. Just no. She’s clinging on way too hard.

She looks like a drag queen! A poorly made-up one! Raul Paul would snort at her!

The awful hair and make-up make her look so unattractive and so haggard.

Remember in S1-3 of SATC when Carrie was actually pretty? That soft hair and softer make-up are what suit her. Harsh hair and harsh make-up only emphasizes the harshness of her face. And some fans wonder why viewers ask “how could Carrie be portrayed as a man magnet when she’s played by SJP?”………..

twocee

Yes! I remember her all the way back in LA Story when she was so adorable trying to get Steve Martin to try a high colonic on the beach.

Celandine1

I always thought she looked amazing during the season she was preganant. Loved the shorter hair. She is too gaunt here and the big hair is not flattering. Besides that dress being too young for her, it’s ugly and a bad 80s retread.

Yes, what is it? It’s like the opposite of plastic surgery? Or, she just had dental work?

mmgk

Maybe it is dental work. Her face looks kind of swollen, especially in the 2nd pic. On the other hand, it could be fillers, injected to smooth out her skin. I don’t know, but she definitely looks different to me.

MK03

PLEASE START DRESSING YOUR AGE. YOU LOOK RIDICULOUS.

BrooklynBomber

So many people have complained about her parted-in-the-middle ‘dos, and clearly she’s trying other things. But this isn’t the solution. This is Park-Avenue-dowager-with-a-stick-up-her-ass hair.

Cheri Lee

I do like her hair and makeup. I don’t care how “fashiony” it may be but NO ONE WANTS TO SEE YOUR BRA DEAR!

hughman

GAH! The lace really pushes it into tragic. It’s like Little Whorehouse on the Prairie.

Although the pic (not shown here) of her entering the show with the long pale blue coat over her shoulders and wearing the gloves does, I’ll give her credit, look about a million times better.

kcarb1025

Is there a rip near the seam in the top? Or is that hole supposed to be there?

Guess I am in the minority (though I do agree about the shoes). I think that other than the rip in the lace this looks nice! She is certainly slim enough to rock this look, and the length of the skirt is right given the see-through quality of the bodice.

NasserShaheen

Nope, agree word for word with you. Pity about the shoes and that tear.

Anathema_Device

Whoa. This is really awful. Maaaaybe if the top had been lined or she wore a white cami, but even then maybe not.

ETA: Look at the woman on the right side of the first pic. HILARIOUS expression. I think she’s expressing what we’re all feeling.

Holy shit I’m having flashbacks to my high school days. I wore my hair JUST.LIKE.THAT and thought I looked so hawt.

twocee

SJP — even MADONNA has accepted that she’s not 25 anymore. You should do the same.

Embrace the fact that you’re older and you can be sophisticated, instead of trashy.

marilyn

That dress is horrible. The way the lace and fabric are joined, combined with the shape is unflattering. The black bra-honestly. Absolutely horrid. The skirt is too long, and the little ruffle on the bottom does not belong. The odd way the lace is cut into the skirt is unflattering. Madonna did the bra-as-fashion-accessory look about 20 years ago and she got past it. Why is SJP trying it now? That hair makes her head look freakishly large compared to the rest of her body. Where is that capelet that people were complaining about yesterday? Anything to cover up this trainwreck.

The dress leaves me…uh…speechless. But what’s going on with her face?? Is some new work settling in? Is it the hair? She looks oddly severe and aged to me. There is nothing in these photos I find flattering to her.

Trying to dress like you are 20 years younger than you really are does not make you look younger. It makes you look dumb. I so wish someone like Helen Mirren to sit her down and explain how to be sexy, stylish and age appropriate.

Spicytomato1

I think SJP does actually know how to be these things — and she often is. I’d like to think this is a rare misstep and not a harbinger of things to come, fashion-wise, from her.

I actually gasped out loud, and NOT in a good way, when I saw this. Oh Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, what are we gonna do with you?

cmb92191

I love the look of the PA (with the animal print scarf next to her) Here are her thoughts.
Picture 1: Oh dear God, she wore that..What the hell? Maybe I can pretend to not notice.
Picture 2: Shit.. she’s standing next to me. Maybe people will think I thought of this craptastic outfit. Maybe I stand off to the side .. no one will notice me.. (as she quietly steps out of frame)
Picture 3: Whew.. you can’t see me now!

If she had just worn a white camisole instead of the black bra, the look would be perfect.

Pinup Ghoul

Yeah. The high-contrast lingerie look doesn’t work on anyone who’s old enough to know better, I think. And she knows better. Overall, I like the dress, but as you said, with something other than a visible bra. It’s a lovely, delicate dress, and should have been accessorized accordingly. I also think a loose updo would have benefited her tremendously.

Sara__B

The dress could have been pretty but she did everything wrong. The unlined bodice with a black bra. The hair. The shoes. The harsh eye makeup. She’s hit fashion bottom.

sherrietee

Her hair looks awesome compared to recent past!

holdmewhileimnaked

marc jacobs has gotta be the iffiest major designer out there. it seems like he’s forever casting about for inspiration & only occasionally finding it & the times that he does find it it’s somebody else’s decade, somebody else’s life, somebody else’s talent, somebody else’s something that he winds up doing little more than replicating. & when he misses he’s very wide of the mark. & when he really misses you get this.

not that she should be wearing it. if she feels like she has no choice, please no black bra. something white & longline [whether she needs it or not. or not] & attractive, please. or if you gotta go the whole everlovin hog buy yrself a piece of fifi chachnil that nobody can avoid noticing. but thats not her, it wasnt her when she was thirty. so she shouldnt be wearing this at all. as an aside, i remember the interviews she gave years ago when she said she was nothing at all like carrie bradshaw, she never cared about clothes, etc & ect. this persona of hers, which was probably more her personality rather than a persona, worked better.

you would think being married to a gay husband (allegedly) would save her from these fashion and age not appropriate mistakes. The top looks like a doily from the tea room, at least she kept the color boring and bland. C+

TheRealLizardqueen

Bobblehead Hell.

luciaphile

I don’t even know where to begin…. disastrous all around…you know, I have to wonder if these people would dress better if they actually had to fork over the money for the clothes.

poketom

HEDWIG HAIR!

Dejah_Thoris

1984 Madonna is calling. She wants her look back.

formerlyAnon

Maybe the light was unflattering, but she just looks old – older than a professionally maintained woman her age should look, if everything is all right.

DominoEstella

She’s the perfect “Capital” citizen. A caricature most of the time. Poor thing.

bellafigura1

You mean like in The Hunger Games?

jw_ny

That outfit is just awful. She was doing so much better as of late, then whoosh…splat, off the wagon she goes. 🙁

That hairstyle makes her already long and narrow face look even more so…and exceptionally large in proportion to the rest of her slight frame.

marywv

Awwww… that tear. I feel so bad for her. She really needs to stop pretending she’s a perpetual 35-year-old single and loose in Manhattan. She’s not Carrie as she tells us in every interview, so please stop stealing her look! Also, she’s starting to get a little J.An; aka desperate to reclaim her youth. A french elopement gown with a visible bra it’s kinda, like, high class escort, no?

Susan Crawford

This is not just unflattering in EVERY way – it makes her look old, worn out and desperate: and SJP is NONE of those things. (Well, OK, she’s no kid, but far from “old”.)

Hire a new style team and OWN who you are, SJP! Don’t let the clothes wear you.

GorgeousThings

She’s got Madonna hands.

blondie65

not just her hands…my god..her feet! Wear hose or tights or socks….lord almighty….any vampire in his right mind would skip the neck and go right to her ankles! It’s like a twilight smorgasbord…

I LOVE IT! hahaha seriously, i still love carrie bradshaw and i dont want her to go anywhere. granted could have done without the black bra, id be okay with white haha but i love her hair and make up too and the gloves!

BigWhiteGrannyPanties

This woman needs to eat something now.

turtleemily

She looks like she could guest extra in The Walking Dead.

Pants_are_a_must

Nope, this is all horrible. INCLUDING the make up and hair.

serenitynow02

Seriously. She looks like a lion with that mane.

margaret meyers

Fail. Not nice in any way.

RedRaven617

White pumps, of any make, should be against the law. What an awful get-up

bellafigura1

I’m so so unhappy with this. The dress, gawd, no. Far worse, she looks absolutely exhausted, and MUCH OLDER than 46. She needs to cut the hair and do something else with the color. She needs to gain 10 lbs and embrace the curves. She needs to give up the pilates (ropy arms) and stick with cardio and yoga. It’s just appalling really, how desperate she looks. I’ve actually lost a bit of respect for her with this appearance.

Toto Maya

She looks undead in these pictures, or like she’s sleepwalking, not realizing that she’s walking down the street only half-dressed.

TheOtherChristina

The black bra is about the only thing I can defend here. That’s a sad state of affairs.

ri_dic

Her hair and make up look good? Nay. She can no longer wear that heavy eye liner. And the hair. Oy. The outfit is just ridic.

ivypoison

I think she looks AMAZING….. Sorry to be the devil’s advocate everybody!

CQAussie

NO!!! This is terrible. Holy cats SJP, WTF??

Where to start? The hair – awful, makes her face look HUGE. Even if I do envy the height of that fringe, I could never get mine to do that and not for lack of trying! Her make-up – also awful….looks dirty and she looks haggard. The dress? YIKES. It’s so tacky with the bra showing like that. The skirt is too long, the shoes suck. The entire look is just off. WAY off.

Also….eat something Sarah Jessica! For the love of all that is holy, eat something. Your stringy arms are frightening me.

Yes to all the peeps reminiscing when SJP was at a healthy weight during SATC seasons 1 to 3. And BIG YES to the LA Story reference! SJP made me laugh every time she would walk/twirl her way down the street. Such a pretty woman. I hope she decides to let go and live a little. And soon.

Holy hell, she looks like Sekeltor! Everything is unflattering and she looks unnaturally gaunt. Not flattering at ALL.

Lisa

You know, I love her. I will always adore her. But she’s just GOT to stop now! And no one’s saying she needs to go all buttoned up and conservative. But there’s ways of looking funky and chic without looking desperate.

MilaXX

You like that hair? I think that’s just as much a mess as the rest of the outfit.

The first thing that popped into my mind was Beverly Sutphin,”You can’t wear white after Labor Day!”

GenXcellent

I mean this in the best possible way, but she kind of looks like Nicolas Cage in these pictures.

nannypoo

You know, she kind of does. I don’t think there’s really a good way to mean it.

Sophie Collier

What is this I don’t even.

Pannyx

Are you guys so blinded by her outfit that you think this is good hair? Scary thoughts.

aristida_girl

pha! A nice cami wold have helped this look so much, as it is, it looks sad and desperate 🙁

Stubenville

I see London, I see France…

AzulFashion

Eat something. She looks emaciated and she has a fake tan. OMG. Someone help her!!!

quiltrx

For once, her hair looks great. End of compliment.

This is LV and looks CHEAP. Like made-it-myself cheap. It’s just bad. Too young for her, and maybe not a look for anyone.

And white before Easter, especially tip-to-toe? I.Just.Can’t.

sleah_in_norcal

but she’s wearing a black bra. doesn’t that count for something? (no)

rainwood1

A. MEN. The only thing I would change in your post, T Lo, is that I don’t have fond memories of Carrie Bradshaw. Her clothes were terrible and her obsession with designer shoes and bags served as validation for lots of women spending money they shouldn’t have who are now literally the poorer for it.

And that hairstyle couldn’t be less flattering.

Adriana_Paula

I do like Carrie, but I completely agree with you about what her designer obsession hath wrought. Before SATC, I don’t remember the societal assumption that all women droolingly fixate on expensive shoes and shopping being nearly so pervasive.

this is JUST AWFUL!!!! most unflattering pictures of her ever. and i can’t agree on the hair. she looks like some grotesque caricature of a cartoon character. yuckyuckyuck. who let you out of the house looking like this! and what is that ridiculous look on your face all about? insanity.

Lilithcat

That is nobody’s dress.

I do not agree about the hair and make-up. The hair is straight out of Dallas and her foundation was slathered on with a trowel. And she forgot her hose again.

It made me think of this Vuitton, which is so much better: http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/2010/07/in-or-out-january-jones-4.html

CatherineRhodes

I think she’s overdoing the injectables (fillers and collagen on the lips). The face looks weirdly photoshopped while the neck, arms and hands are those of a 45-year-old. The disconnect is off-putting. As is this outfit. Move beyond quirky, go for grown-up.

I never did get the bra thing on Sex and the City. Bra, bra, constant bra. At one point I even googled it to see if they were doing a thing, but they weren’t; they were just showing off bras to show them off.

fashionablylate

Hmm, it appears that the ultra-pointy-toed shoe is looking to overthrow the putty-colored platform pump as the ugly celebrity shoe of choice. Oh joy.

I’ve been saying that for quite some time. She thinks she IS Carrie Bradshaw, except she forgets that Betsey Johnson dressed Carrie. Thus why SJP utterly fails every time she gets dressed. And I was watching re-runs of RuPaul’s drag race and she said “white shoes means you’re a real prostitute”. They do always look cheap, don’t they?

bluefish

That is one terrible foto! I love her looks and find her strangely beautiful but she needs to 1) eat and 2) follow your advice for real!

OMG Sarah! You poked a hole in your lace and everyone can see your bra!!! I kid, I kid. Seriously fug from high atop her hair to the pointy points of her shoes. It looks like she let Conan O’Brien style her hair. It works on him, not on Sarah.

Jessica Rowe

I hated that newspaper dress.

tsid2012

Odd, the first thing I thought here was “great little outfit, WRONG hair and make up for it.” That borderline “mall hair” lift in front just makes her already long, equine face look older and I just don’t get the choice for this outfit. Same outfit with a more natural, frizzy curl would have worked for me. Long live Carrie, dance with the one that brung ya……

Corsetmaker

I’m not sure it’s a good thing that I can tell what brand of bra she’s wearing.

Wonderbra Ultimate Strapless if anyone’s wondering. Good bras, if she didn’t get a free one, she should now!

The saddest part is how old this makes her look. And tortured. And silly, to boot. Bummer.

Candigirl1968

George Lucas was a fitting analogy. Clearly there is nobody close to her to say “let it go.”

Call me Bee

Gentlemen, you certainly speak the truth about SJP’s wardrobe. But, I must disagree about the hair and make-up. She–much like lots of 40-something actresses–needs a new look. Her long hair and make-up are making her look drawn and tired. She looks exhausted here. Time to enter the new millienium.

bitchybitchybitchy

Yes, please, let go of Carrie. Please-I”m saying this as someone who was a big fan of SATC (the series and the first movie, not the misbegotten dreck second movie).

LinXGUA

The face of the lady in the first picture to the right… says it all.

LinXGUA

I don’t know why but she looks like Nic Cage here. I blame the hair and makeup.

vmcdanie

I never liked this look when it was new. And I’m sorry to say this because we are not so far apart age-wise, but this is not age appropriate. The matronly skirt looks weird with the slut bra top. She doesn’t have to start wearing mu-mus but she should start thinking about not flaunting her foundation garments.

Was she just snapped making a weird face three times or has she had some facial work done recently?

mrspeel2

Totally agree on letting go of Carrie Bradshaw!! Also, is it my eyes or does she look terribly emaciated? Her arms look like skeletons with a thin layer of flesh over them.